Insect-powder distributor



Oct- 12 1926.

E/B. HORN INSECT POWDER DISTRIBUTOR Filed August 25, 1924' Patented Oct. 12, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN B. HORN, OF BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI.

INSECT-POWDER DISTRIBUTOR.

Application filed August 23, 1924. Serial No. 733,671.

My invention relates to insect-powder distributors.

The invention is designed to enable the application of poisonous powder to plants for the distraction of insects thereon. It is of particular advantage for the killing of boll weevils.

The invention aims to provide a handcarried distributor of simple construction that will insure the application in the form of a fine powder while at the same time the person of the operator is protected from the powder.

lVith these objects in view my invention is embodied in preferable form in the device hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In these drawings-- Fig. 1 is an exterior view in elevation of the device;

Fig. 2, a vertical section; and

Fig. 3, a bottom plan view looking up.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a cylindrical shell or casing which is open at the bottom and is provided at the upper end with a removable cover 2. A handle 3, by which the case is adapted to be carried by hand, is secured to the upper end thereof.

Within this enclosing body is adapted to be freely suspended a powder containing and sifting member consisting of a flexible bag 4, of textile, loose mesh, porous material capable of holding a supply of material, yet adapted to permit the material to be sifted when the bag is agitated or jarred. The upper end of the bag is open and is provided with a d aw string 5, whereby after the powder has been placed in the bag, the mouth may be tightly closed. A suspending ring (5 is secured to the upper end of the bag and detachably engages a spring hook 7 or similar device, which in turn is fixed to the inner face of the removable cover 2, whereby the bag is not only suspended freely within the casing but may be readily removed therefrom for refilling by lifting the cover from the casing.

The lower end of the bag terminates some distance. above the lower end of the casing, and below the bag are secured to and within the casing, cross-bars 8, which are adapted to serve both to guard the bag against contact with the plants and the consequent 4 replaced.

avoidance of contact of the powder bag with moisture in the plants, and also to some extent as a grate to aid in breaking up particles of material that are sifted from the bag, as they pass through the open end of the casing. These cross-bars also serve to brace the wall of the casing.

The wall of the casing is preferably formed with corrugations 9 vertically or horizontally disposed, the latter being shown, in order to provide abrupt surfaces for the contact of the bag to thereby more effectually shake out the powder from the bag. These corrugations also serve to stiffen the wall of thecasing.

In the use of the device, the cover 2 is lifted from the casing and the porous bag detached from the hook and filled with the poisonous material in powder form and the end thereof closed by the draw string. The bag is attached to the. cover and the latter The bag will then hang freely and centrally in the casing.

The casing is carried by the handle and the powder is applied to the plants by swinging the casing and moving it up and down so that the bag is thrown against the wall of the container and the powder thus shaken loose and sifted through the meshes in finely divided form. It will escape through the open lower end of the easing the latter serving to direct the powder away from the person of the operator.

(Vhat I claim is 1. An insect-powder distributor having a hollow casing open at one end, means to close the other end, and a porous textile powder containing bag freely suspended within said casing.

2. An insect-powder distributor comprising a hollow casing open at its lower end and having a handle, a removable cover for the upper end of said casing, and a powder containing bag freely suspended from said cover.

3. A powder distributor having a hollow casing open at its lower end, a freely suspended powder containing bag in said casing, and grating members in said casing between the lower end thereof and the In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EDWIN B. HORN. 

